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Loughshinny Beach

Loughshinny Beach is one of the waters the EPA tests and grades in County Dublin, 0.4 km east of Loughshinny. The Environmental Protection Agency classified it good for water quality for the 2025 season. The register records a lifeguard, toilets, parking, a lifebuoy, first aid and a beach wheelchair.

Good
water quality, 2025
No
Blue Flag
Yes
lifeguard
0.4 km
from Loughshinny
Water quality
Good, 2025
Seasons before
2024 Sufficient, 2023 Poor, 2022 Sufficient
Water testing
Tested by the EPA sampled through the season and given a water quality grade
Season restriction
None in place
Pollution after rain
Prone to short term pollution, closed 6 days last season
Awards
None
County
County Dublin
Managed by
Fingal County Council
Nearest town
Loughshinny, 0.4 km east of it, in a straight line
From that town
0.5 km by road, about 1 min drivingor 0.6 km on foot, about 7 minutes at 4.8 km/h
Lifeguard
Yes: Weekends only during June. Fulltime in July and August.
Toilets
On opposite side of road to car park
Parking
Yes
Access
A beach wheelchair is available
Dogs
Not allowed
Cars on the beach
No
Public transport
No
First aid
When lifeguards on duty
Position
53.5463° N, 6.0808° W
Record changed
2026-03-31
Loughshinny pier and harbour, County Dublin, Ireland
Loughshinny pier and harbour, County Dublin, Ireland·Ridiculopathy, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Loughshinny pier and harbour, County Dublin, Ireland·Ridiculopathy, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Loughshinny pier and harbour, County Dublin, Ireland
Loughshinny pier and harbour, County Dublin, Ireland·Ridiculopathy, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Loughshinny pier and harbour, County Dublin, Ireland·Ridiculopathy, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

What the EPA says about it

Loughshinny Beach is a gently sloping, small, sheltered, cove-like sandy beach. Loughshinny harbour, a small active fishing harbour, is to the east of the beach.

Loughshinny Beach is classified as achieving Good Water Quality in 2025 based on the assessment of bacteriological results for the period 2022 to 2025. Loughshinny Beach had a Sufficient Water Quality rating in 2024, a Poor Water Quality rating in 2023 and Sufficient Water Quality rating in 2022. Annual water quality ratings are generally calculated using monitoring results over a four-year period and are assessed against stringent bacterial limits to protect bather health.

The EPA’s own beach profile

Where it is

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Getting to Loughshinny Beach

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Destination, access and nearby stops

Loughshinny Beach is in Loughshinny, County Dublin. Routes here end at the point the map records for this place. The entrance has not been verified, so the last few metres are for you to judge.

The nearest settlement is Loughshinny, 0.4 km east of the beach. The register records parking here. Getting to the town is not getting to the beach, so the journey below is worked out to the beach itself and the last stretch on foot is measured rather than left out.
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Stops near it

The nearest scheduled stop is Carnhill (3786), 1.1 km away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.

  • Carnhill 1.1 km
    buses 33A, 33, 33X, 33n and 33E
    Scheduled departures from this stop
  • Rush Athletic FC 1.1 km
    buses 33A, 33 and 33X
    Scheduled departures from this stop
  • Loughshinny Cross 1.4 km
    buses 33A, 33, 33X, 33n and 33E
    Scheduled departures from this stop
  • Mine Road 1.4 km
    buses 33A, 33 and 33X
    Scheduled departures from this stop
  • Clifflands 1.5 km
    buses 33A, 33, 33X, 33n and 33E
    Scheduled departures from this stop

Getting to Loughshinny covers the journeys into the town itself.

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Questions people ask

Is the water clean at Loughshinny Beach?
The EPA classified it Good for the 2025 season, which is worked out from four years of samples. Loughshinny Beach is classified as achieving Good Water Quality in 2025 based on the assessment of bacteriological results for the period 2022 to 2025. Loughshinny Beach had a Sufficient Water Quality rating in 2024, a Poor Water Quality rating in 2023 and Sufficient Water Quality rating in 2022. Annual water quality ratings are generally calculated using monitoring results over a four-year period and are assessed against stringent bacterial limits to protect bather health. A classification is a record of seasons that have finished; it is not a reading of the water today.
Is swimming restricted at Loughshinny Beach?
The register records no season-long restriction. That is about the season, not about today: a short notice after heavy rain would not appear here, and this water is recorded as prone to short term pollution. Check with Fingal County Council before swimming.
Does Loughshinny Beach have a Blue Flag?
No. A beach without one can still have excellent water: the Blue Flag also asks for facilities, lifeguards and information boards, which a quiet strand may not have.
Is there a lifeguard at Loughshinny Beach?
The register records one, Weekends only during June. Fulltime in July and August.. Outside those hours nobody is watching the water.
How do you get to Loughshinny Beach without a car?
The nearest stop in the national timetable is Carnhill, 1.1 km from the beach in a straight line, and buses 33A, 33, 33X, 33n and 33E call there, run by Go-Ahead Ireland and Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus. The planner on this page works out the walk from that stop over real footways, and the whole journey from wherever you are starting, for the day and time you pick. Where no footway joins the stop to the beach it says so rather than making a number up.
Where does this come from?
The Environmental Protection Agency's list of places people swim, which it calls the bathing water register, read on 2026-09-20, where this record was last changed on 2026-03-31. Water quality, awards, lifeguards and facilities are the EPA's own fields, and a field it leaves blank is shown as not recorded rather than as a no. The distance to the nearest town is this site's own measurement, in a straight line.

Water quality, awards, lifeguards, toilets, parking and access are the Environmental Protection Agency’s own fields, from its bathing water register, read 2026-09-20. The classification covers four years of sampling and is not a reading for today: after heavy rain the water can be worse than the classification suggests, and the EPA and the local authority post notices when it is. Positions are the EPA’s grid references, projected to latitude and longitude. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable.

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